[gatein-dev] sample-portal questions

[Nicolas Filotto]

Did you get and read the documentation about the extensions in GateIn?

It seems that the doc has been sent to Thomas, I don't know if he shares it
with you

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Boleslaw Dawidowicz <
boleslaw.dawidowicz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have few questions about sample-portal and how the services are started.
> What concerns me the most is that currently services seems to be started
> separately for each container. This means that we end up with two
> HibernateServices and OrganizationService instances. Obviously it may be
> desired to have separate identity realm per container but I believe that
> there may be some situations in which single OrganizationService would also
> be expected. So for the more specific questions:
>
> 1) Is it possible to have both containers use same service instances? Some
> configuration way to mark services as shared and bootstrapped only once.
>
> 2) I'm a bit confused by the way the service configuration is separated.
> AFAIK one benefit of the separate container config is to push configuration
> out of gatein.ear. That way things can be configured in
> sample-portal.ear/sample-portal.war. However most of services configuration
> currently remain in gatein.ear/portal.war/WEB-INF/conf and rely on the
> ${container.name.suffix} replaced by the kernel. One example is
> HibernateService which creates separate DB instances this way. Now if I want
> to plug LDAP the natural way is to provide several xml files with names
> following ${container.name.suffix} pattern. But those are defined in config
> remaining in gatein.ear - then portal admin need to mess with config in both
> ears. Wouldn't it make sense to duplicate more service configuration in
> sample-portal.ear?
>
> My use case is PicketLink IDM integration with LDAP enabled. As it is
> natural to provide separate LDAP DNs for different portal containers I can
> either put additional config file in sample-portal.war or have two different
> ones in gatein.ear/portal.war. So it is either configuring sample-portal.war
> inside gatein.ear/portal.war or having part of identity config in portal.war
> and part in sample-portal.war... I think it would make sense to duplicate at
> least HibernateService and OrganizationService config in both war files.
>
> 3) Current behavior is to replace the ${container.name.suffix} by:
>
> - empty string in tomcat deployment
> - "_portal" and "_sample-portal" in jboss deployment
>
> It works fine when the suffix is used to create the HSQLDB file name on the
> fly but when used to refer to different configuration files it means that
> there need to be 3 xml files.. where 2 are duplicated ones to serve main
> portal container in tomcat and jboss. Could we have ${container.name.suffix}
> be replaced by "portal" in both jboss and tomcat? Also is there any other
> property that could be used as a prefix? Like to have the choice between
> "portal_", "portal" and "_portal" for flexibility in nice config files
> naming.
>
> Bolek.
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